new 29 gallon tank purchased

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Originally Posted by goldseverum109
50% water changes every week? thats really bad for your aquarium, your tank needs to build up beneficial bacteria to ...

50% water changes every week? thats really bad for your aquarium, your tank needs to build up beneficial bacteria to do the work for you, then you won't have to do so many water changes, also remeber most filters do the bst job at the lowest flow rate.

50% PWC is not bad for your tank at all. In fact, it's very good for your tank. Especially if it's planted, as it resets all your parameters so that none get too high.

the filter is hooked up and running. its a marineland unit for a 55G ? tank. it was free :D my buddy had it running in his tank and now he has a 100G filter. so this one came with a cycled biowheel and filter which i think is cool... should speed things up a bit